Proton's Privacy-Focused Lumo Chatbot Gets Image Generation

Lumo 2.0 can also search for relevant background information.

Proton has rolled out its biggest update yet for the Lumo chatbot, almost a year after it launched. Lumo version 2.0 now comes with image recognition and generation, finally making it a legitimate competitor to ChatGPT and Gemini. Proton says the updated chatbot has the capability to generate images, as well as to analyze and edit them. Conversations involving images are still protected by zero-access encryption like all chats on Lumo, which means they can only be accessed on your device. The company says they can't be accessed by third-parties or even Proton itself.

In addition to image generation, the new Lumo also has a thinking mode for reasoning. Proton says Lumo 2.0 Lite scored 127 percent higher than Lumo 1.4 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Indexbenchmark, while Lumo 2.0 Max scored 240 percent higher. The benchmark measures...

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